Mangrove Hummingbird

Overview

Mangrove Hummingbird (Chrysuronia boucardi) is a species of Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) in the order Swifts and Hummingbirds.

Scientific Classification

Genus: Chrysuronia; binomial: Chrysuronia boucardi; authority: (Mulsant, 1877).

Distribution

Breeding range: Middle America.

Conservation Status

This taxon is listed as Extant (living) in the IOC World Bird List.

Remarks

Tentatively retained within Amazilia though affinities uncertain, as not included in the phylogeny of McGuire et al. (2014) (NACC 2020-A-03, 2020-D-01). Recent phylogenetic analysis reveals that Mangrove Hummingbird is embedded in Chrysuronia within which it is most closely related to similarly mangrove-dwelling C. coeruleogularis (Albertazzi et al. 2024). Move from Amazilia to Chrysuronia (Chesser et al. 2024).